This article nominates Bruno Snell’s Discovery of the Mind (1946; trans. 1953) as an Undead Text on the basis of three criteria. The article examines first the persistence of a Snellian story about the Greeks as the ancestors of modern Europe within the discipline of classics, before considering the broader question of how Undead Texts interact with Undead (Grand) Narratives. It then considers Discovery as an Undead Narrative in its symbiotic relationship with E. R. Dodds’s Greeks and the Irrational, which remains a standard-bearer of the narrative of the Greeks as Other to the moderns. In its final analysis, the article looks to Discovery as itself a perennially productive site for plotting the coordinates of Same and Other in relationship to the ancient Greeks, arguing that such questions are as much about enabling new attachments to the “classical” past as they are about conservative claims of heritage or, conversely, estrangement from the present.

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布鲁诺·斯内尔（Bruno Snell），《心灵的发现》（1946 年；译于 1953 年）

本文根据三个标准提名布鲁诺·斯内尔的《心灵的发现》（1946 年；1953 年翻译）为不死文本。这篇文章首先考察了一个关于希腊人作为现代欧洲祖先在经典学科中的持久性，然后考虑了不死文本如何与不死（宏大）叙事相互作用的更广泛的问题。然后，它认为发现是与 ER Dodds 的希腊人和非理性的共生关系中的不死叙事，它仍然是希腊人作为现代人的他者的叙事的旗手。归根结底，这篇文章将发现本身视为一个常年生产的站点，用于绘制与古希腊人关系的 Same 和 Other 的坐标，